Cz Czz

Looking for cats, trees and murmations

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Based on my Cornell follow the money findings, and with a daughter applying to colleges right now, I wanted to look across more universities to understand how far this goes. So I built Behind the Ivory Walls, a model that ranks America’s 31 richest universities on who controls their police, how many sexual assaults they never count, what they have already been caught failing to stop and how much they have paid to settle abuse claims.

I scored every school on 10 criteria. They come down to three questions: who controls the police, how many assaults never get counted, and how much the school has already paid for abuse it was warned about.

The 10 criteria: who employs the campus police, who those police answer to, whether city police are required to lead sex crime cases, whether the public can see the records, whether anyone outside oversees the department, how many assaults never make the official count, how many victims tell no one at the school, the school’s documented failures, the money it has paid for abuse, and pending lawsuits.

Highlights of findings:

(1) USC, Cornell and Columbia stand apart from the rest. Each one has paid or agreed to pay ~ $1 billion or more for abuse by a doctor the institution had been told about.

(2) 21 of the 31 schools have no rule that requires anyone outside the university to see a sexual assault report before it reaches a prosecutor. Only seven have a written rule that hands sex crime cases to city police.

(3) Only about 1 in 15 of the assaults students describe in their own schools’ surveys shows up in the official federal count.

(4) 28 of the 31 run their own police force with arrest powers, and 28 have no independent oversight of those police at all.

(5) 16 keep their police records completely closed to the public. At nine, the police report up to the university’s finance or legal office. At the University of Chicago, the department is overseen by the general counsel, the school’s top lawyer.

(6) At 19 of these schools, students’ own survey answers point to about 7,600 sexual assaults a year. Those same schools reported about 510 to the federal government. At the University of Chicago, the federal count captures 1.9% of what its own students report.

(7) At Penn, victims told no campus office at all in about three out of four incidents involving women.

If you have a child applying to college this fall or attending one right now, all 31 schools are in the article. Public universities are next, so let me know what other schools you want run next!

Full article is up on my Substack now (link in bio and it's free).

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@strangerous10 @gomichild @LindaBr40292791 Ticket inspectors can demand to see yr ticket and detain you for s variety of reasons. Other officers have different powers.

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@Bannef_ Pumpkin is a very beautiful cat. And caring too.

[Rhea Liang @LiangRhea]

'I got an email from BreastScreen Australia, telling me that my mammogram result was a bit weird. May I take this opportunity to say, ladies, for the love of God, keep up with your mammograms.'

Sending love to Aussie treasure Judith Lucy. #BreastCancer 💔
https://t.co/EACEqc60wd

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@jess_marnich Beautiful outcome of changing the clocks.

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@SupernovaMomma Thank you for sharing these goals. I didnt understand thats what an OT could assist with.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Needs to be reshared

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@MoreOrLessAMess @Squeeze1i How long has the nap need been going on? If its short term it may you finally sleeping. It dudnt last for me but i was so happy my brain got to experience that quiet.

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@GardenBrocante Loving all the different color combinations

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@OAbugu96976 If i were this talented I would brag. You are amazing

[Gladio Langford @fearthe_void]

A single regent honeyeater is worth more to me than all the computers, LLMs, and techies in the world combined

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@weskrantz Out of interest how long would they use a nesting mound for?

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

Is anyone outside of Southeast Asia aware that a fire the size of Western Europe is burning in Indonesia right now?

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@X_sun_ny Does this also include sharing information? All the details seem equally important.

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@danidonovan And the hospital staff tell you are not dying but you pay forthe test anyway to be sure. Cis it feels like a heart attack is happening. But i dontvthinkbgeart attacks last for 2 hours.

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@danidonovan Instead of delivery is there a service that does prepped meals? They can be delicious and cheaper than delivery.

[Lyndsey Jackson @ok_lyndsey]

It's also a beat-up because training AI on data, however it was obtained is allowable. Consent isn't needed. No questions are being asked from the makers of these products, how they got the data... well who cares? 🤷 So it's a free for all.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.

A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.

IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.

[Cz Czz @CzCzzCzz]

@criprights Cheaper than a palantir contract?